Dev C++ 4 and GCC

[Horox]

I have been trying to make a c program and I was told to download these two programs. I downloaded and installed Dev C++ with no problems but have searched the net endlessly to figure out how to install GCC but can't figure it out. Does anyone know how to do it or know of a link to a tutorial which could help me out?

[anon]

It should be possible to download and install Dev-C++ together with GCC and have it run from the box. So you wouldn't need to do anything special. Hopefully by Dev-C++ 4 you mean something like 4.9.9.2 (which I guess is also called Dev-C++ 5), otherwise you might have many troubles.

[Elysia]

Or you can just download Visual Studio Express and not have to worry about configuring n' stuff. Nice.
Assuming you're using Windows, of course. Wouldn't work on Linux or Mac.

[zacs7]

DevC++ comes with MingW (The Windows port of GCC), what exactly are you trying to do?

> Assuming you're using Windows, of course. Wouldn't work on Linux or Mac.
Wine ftw

[Horox]

I want to be able to use gcc commands in command window to compile the .o files and run, my friend told me I had to download gcc in addition to dev c++ to do this, maybe he's wrong?

[Elysia]

Why in blazes would anyone want to do that? That is beyond my knowledge.

[zacs7]

He's partly right, you want MinGW -- the Windows GCC port.

However, you've already got MinGW (DevCpp comes with it), look in DevCpp's bin directory (or whatever it's called).

[Aia]

He's partly right, you want MinGW -- the Windows GCC port.

However, you've already got MinGW (DevCpp comes with it), look in DevCpp's bin directory (or whatever it's called).

Adding to that.
If you installed Dev-C++ in the default place, all you need to do is to set the path.

Control panel->System->Advanced->Environment Variables

Evironment Variables->bottom screen->select Path->click Edit.
In the new Edit System Variable window->enter-> ;C:\Dev-Cpp\bin ( note the semicolon )
click OK
click Ok

To test that gcc is working anywhere in the command line:

Run->cmd.exe

At the command line enter gcc -v
Something similar to this indicates the path is set correctly:

C:\AllProg\CProg\helping>gcc -v
Reading specs from C:/Dev-Cpp/bin/../lib/gcc/mingw32/3.4.2/specs
Configured with: ../gcc/configure --with-gcc --with-gnu-ld --with-gnu-as --host=
mingw32 --target=mingw32 --prefix=/mingw --enable-threads --disable-nls --enable
-languages=c,c++,f77,ada,objc,java --disable-win32-registry --disable-shared --e
nable-sjlj-exceptions --enable-libgcj --disable-java-awt --without-x --enable-ja
va-gc=boehm --disable-libgcj-debug --enable-interpreter --enable-hash-synchroniz
ation --enable-libstdcxx-debug
Thread model: win32
gcc version 3.4.2 (mingw-special)

Now you can compile using commands.

[laserlight]

Why in blazes would anyone want to do that? That is beyond my knowledge.

Possible reasons include:

• To run a build tool like make or scons from the command line (possibly due to lack of IDE support).
• To run a configure script from MSYS.
• To learn how to use gcc from the command line.